Cash-paying shovel.



PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

B. LANDAU. CASH PAYING SHOVBL. APPLICATION FILED JAN.23, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed January 28, 1906. Serial No. 297,515. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNHARD LANDAU, a subject of the Emperor ofAustria-Hungary, residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austriaand Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented a new and usefulCash-Paying Shovel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the devices by means of which change is in shopsreturned to purchasers; and it has for its object to provide a cheap andeasil -manageable device of this kind which first allows the coins to bearrayed side by side, so that they can easily be counted, and afterwardenables them to be at once slid into the hand of the customer, whichthus avoids the troublesome picking up of the coins.

According to my invention the cash-paying shovel is formed of a platehaving a handle and having its lateral and rear edges bent up, while agutter, one end of which is open, is formed along the front edge. Inorder to keep the bottom of this shovel in horizontal position,notwithstanding there being the gutter, the shovel is provided withlegs.

In the annexed sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 asectional side elevation, of a cash-paying shovel embodying myinvention.

Referring to' the drawings, a, is a plate upon which the coins arecounted, and the rear portion of which carries a handle I). The lateraland rear marginal portions 0 of the plate a are bent up, and the frontedge is made integral With a gutter at, either end of which is open. Bythe described construction of the shovel the operator is enabled tocause the coins, by lowering the front end of the shovel, to slide intothe gutter and afterward to cause them, by lowering the open end of thegutter, to slide into the palm or receptacle below the said open end.The wire legs 6 keep the shovel in horizontal position when it is placedupon a table.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cash-paying shovel, the combination with a plane plate of ahandle secured to its rear end, an upright rim or flange along thelateral and rear edges of the plate, and a gutter formed along the frontedge and being open at either end, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

2. In a cash-paying shovel, the combination With a plane plate of ahandle secured to its rear end, lateral and rear flanges, a gutter alongthe front edge, and legs of such lengths as to keep the plate inhorizontal position When resting on a horizontal support, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification in presence of twowitnesses.

BERN HARD LANDAU.

Witnesses VICTOR KERPL,

ALvEsTo S. HOGUE.

